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Curious places in Jordan
2 articles, each fact-checked and tied to a spot you can stand on.
archaeologyAmman Governorate
9,000-Year-Old People of Plaster9,000-year-old lime plaster sculptures with haunting bitumen eyes, standing nearly a meter tall. Created 4,000 years before the pyramids. Among humanity's earliest large-scale representations of itself. Some have two heads. Their purpose remains unknown.
archaeologyAmman Governorate
A Copper Map to 64 Lost TreasuresA Dead Sea Scroll listing 64 treasure locations written on copper (unique among the scrolls), but whether the treasures existed or were found remains unknown.
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